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Title: Blazing a Trail to Oregon: Jumping-Off at St. Joe
Description: Article about the travels of Cornelius "Neal" Gilliam and his parties on the section of the Oregon Trail from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to central Kansas in the 1840s, with illustrations and maps.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: George Edward Kessler
Description: Photos and biographical article about George Kessler (1862-1923), a nationally prominent landscape architect and designer of Kansas City's park and boulevard system. Description of his life and career, a native of Germany emigrating to America as a child and starting his career in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1882, before opening an office in Kansas City and designing the park and boulevard system by 1893, "completed with the help of businessman August R. Meyer and newspaperman William Rockhill Nelson." Description of his later career, arriving in Saint Louis in 1902 for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Forest Park restoration, although "remain[ing] an advisor to the Kansas City Park Board until his death." Called "the leading landscape architect and city planner of the early twentieth century," designing plans for cities around the world, especially in the United States.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Municipal Auditorium
Description: Photograph of Municipal Auditorium. A marquee in front advertises an August 31, 1991 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers concert. The building, on the block bound by 13th, 14th, Wyandotte and Central Streets, was built in the early 1930s and dedicated on December 1, 1935. The Americana Hotel, at 1301 Wyandotte, can be seen in the background of the image.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Beginning of American Royal
Description: "Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how this great show came into being. As early as 1880 pure-bred Angus, Shorthorn, Gallaway, and Hereford cattle were being brought into the Central West and Southwest. By 1883 strong rivalry existed between the breeders of this section as to the relative merits of the different breeds. At first, it was known as the Kansas City Fat Stock Show Association. Their first show was held in 1882 in River View Park. In reporting a meeting of the four cattle breeders associations, in August 1901, the Drovers Telegram used the heading, 'The American Royal Is Coming.' Thus was christened what was destined to be one of the most far-reaching events in the Middle West."
Date: 1991
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1991 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Mother and Teacher as Missouri State Penitentiary Inmates: Goldman and O'Hare, 1917-1920
Description: Photos and biographical article about Kate O'Hare ("a well-known socialist") and Emma Goldman ("a famous anarchist"), fellow inmates at the Missouri State Penitentiary (at the time "the United States' largest and arguably most inhumane modern penal institution") in Jefferson City, Missouri, from 1917 to 1920. Description of O'Hare as a native of Ottawa County, Kansas, mvoing "to the West Bottom[s] slums of Kansas City, Missouri," about 1897 with her parents and joining the Socialist Party of America in 1901. Description of Goldman as a Jewish native of Russia "emigrat[ing] to America in 1885 at the age of sixteen."
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Preventing Extinction
Description: Article about the diversity of Missouri's species of plants and animals, as well as other natural phenomena making them possible, such as the types of underlying soil and rock, humid continental climate, etc.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Changing American Landscape: The Art and Politics of Joe Jones
Description: Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about "St. Louis-born artist Joe Jones (1909-1963)," a regionalist painter and political activist starting in Saint Louis in the 1930s and associated with the working class during the Depression. Description of his later career, painting murals for many Midwestern postoffices and becoming nationally known, producing paintings for large corporations and covers for Fortune and Time magazines, etc.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Fighting the River on the Katy Trail, 1892-1992
Description: History of the Katy Trail on its centennial anniversary, named after "the Missouri, Kansas & Texas ('Katy') Railway," named "officially the Missouri River State Trail." Description of the determination and construction of the railroad's route from Texas to Saint Louis and Kansas City, with maps and photos.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Civil War in the West: The 1864 Trail Season
Description: Article about the Civil War in the West, meaning west of the Mississippi River, the area much less commonly covered in detail in histories of the war. Photos, map, and illustrations included.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Whatever Happened to Fitzhugh's Mill? Rendezvous Point for the Great Migration of 1843
Description: History of Watts Mill (established as Fitzhugh's Mill), describing its part in westward migration, with maps showing its place in Kansas City landmarks and trails.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Federal Courthouse Building: A Threat?
Description: Contemplation about replacement of the United States Courthouse building at 811 Grand Avenue because of inadequacy for future needs.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Hole Story
Description: History of Silver Dollar City, an amusement park designed in the 1950s as "a replica of an old fashioned, Ozark town atop" a cave, and opened in 1960. Description and photos of its attractions, including rides, caves, pioneer Ozark settings, and memorabilia of the six episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies" television shows filmed there.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Landmarks Endangered by Tax Sale
Description: Story about the threats to the New York Life Building and the Uptown Theater by tax auctions.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Union Station: Great Landmark Sits Empty, Lifeless and Deteriorating while Hope Waits in the Wings
Description: History of Union Station as a railroad station replacing Union Depot, severely damaged in the 1903 flood. Discussion of the litigation over its future uses and owners.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

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